Jets to fly low over county (From Dorset Echo)

Jets to fly low over county

10:45am Sunday 4th May 2008 in

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ROYAL Air Force aircraft will be flying low over Dorset this week as part of a training drill, the Ministry of Defence has announced.

Jets including Tornados, Hawks and Harriers will be soaring over Dorchester, Cerne Abbas and other areas as part of exercise Early Resolve'.

The medium-scale exercise will allow aircrews to practise close air support operations and ground forces to practice air control techniques.

The flying will take place in Dorset between 9am and 11pm on May 8 and 9 before the exercise moves on to west Wales.

A MoD spokesman said: "Throughout exercise Early Resolve there will be occasions when participating fast jet aircraft will be required to flow at low level.

"But any time spent conducting low level flying will be the minimum necessary to achieve the training objectives with every effort being made to minimise disturbance.

"Additionally, where low flying operations have been arranged as part of the exercise this precludes the use of the same area by aircraft carrying out routine low-level training flying."

Other aircraft - including the jet-powered maritime patrol aircraft Nimrod - will be operating at high level to monitor the jets.